My Father Is The Most Sincere Gentlemen

My mother’s friend felt nervous, when I started interviewing her about her experiences of growing up as a child into a parent. While waiting for the interview to start, I noticed Jasmine was constantly fidgeting and tapping her foot. It was Saturday night, when I started interviewing her. Jasmine Kaur was born on November.16, 1982, who grew up in a small, urban town in Punjab, India. Most of her childhood years were spent in her town in India, but came to the United States several years ago with her husband. I asked her to tell a little about her parents, and what they were like. She looked at me, and smiled, then she said “my mother is a loving and caring woman, who acted like a mother when I needed it, and acted as a friend when I needed it. Even till now, I consider my mother as one of my closest friends. My father is the most sincere gentlemen, I’ve known, who is a kind, honest and hardworking man. He is quite overprotective, and still thinks of me as his little girl.” I nodded my head and replied “I can see why your father is overprotective because growing up in an Indian household, he knows one day his daughter will leave the house and no longer be his little princess anymore after marriage.” Jasmine looked at me, with her big, brown eyes and smiled sadly.

I continued to interview her and asked to describe her relationship with her siblings, if she had any. “My relationship with my older sister is the person who I would go to when I needed someone to talk to, the one who’s always there for me and knows what to say. She has impacted who I am by teaching me the value of pride and hard-work. My younger brother, who is 6 years younger than me, has taught me the value of caring and loving. From an adult perspective,...

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... can carry out her father’s wishes. Jasmine got married at a young age to a stranger, but yet learned to love him. The way she expresses her feelings about her family and friends is full of emotion and contentment. She explains the love for her parents, her older sister, her younger brother, her best friend, her husband and her two kids. Throughout the interview, you can visualize Jasmine growing up as a naive teenager to a caring and loving parent.

According to Erikson’s fifth stage of development, Identity vs. Role of Confusion is the most significant stage of transition from childhood to adulthood. As they are making this transition, teenagers tend to feel confused or insecure about themselves and how they fit into society. During this period, children are becoming more independent, and begin to look at the future in terms of career, relationships, families, etc.